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Blame won’t solve the problem

The markets are predictably not reacting favorably to America’s credit rating downgrade. And just as predictably neither is Obama. On the Friday before before the debt ceiling compromise was reached, it leaked, that Obama was calling the credit rating agencies, in an attempt to strong arm them into not lowering the credit rating. Now in [...]

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I’m proud of the Tea Party

Last night I tweeted that Harry Reid should have his mouth washed out with a dirty diaper the very next time he calls those of us demanding financial accountability extremists. If they call Tea Party’s insistence that wild spending and waste stop – that it be addressed here and now – if that’s hijacking the [...]

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Islam is pink gorilla

Over the next few days, or until something more exciting bumps it, we will hear about Anders Behring Breivik, the Oslo shooter. I’m not suggesting he be removed from the front pages, nor am I suggesting that he is not newsworthy. Quite the opposite. He is emblematic of a deeply troubled individual, and just because [...]

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This was always obama’s plan

The biggest impediment to debt reduction is obama. He continues to blame Bush, blame congress, and blame Republicans. Every economic gambit he has forced through, has failed. Unemployment is up, job creation is down, millions of jobs lost since he took office, he’s added trillions to the national debt since taking office, and the best [...]

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